WORK > Cocoon: small transformations

Hemp cordage, gold crochet cotton, Icelandic wool, fiber-fill, blended upcycled yarns, wool sock yarn, borax crystals, found giant barnacle.

'Vernal Emblem' is a sweet homage to my grandmother: milner, seamstress, textile designer, knitter, quilter, dancer, chanteuse, matriarch. Bull kelp riffs off of the outlandish handmade midwestern curtain fobs of my youth that hung from every curtain in my grandmother's house, borax crystals dripping from gold cordage adorn the piece as jewels, and take the place of tears and hope as life renews and I pass traditions onto my daughters.